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on making the vintage faith relevant againApostolic Succession As Spiritual, Not Physical
Peg, an episcopalian seminarian over at Get Started blog, wrote a great, very insightful post on the concept of apostolic succession. Here is a juicy tidbit: Here’s the problem: the purpose of apostolic succession is to refute heresies, to guarantee the purity of the...
read moreThe Survey Says: I’m Emergent & Pomo
I took a survey on my theological worldview. Try it out and report back your findings. I think it is fairly accurate, though my Roman Catholic inclinations are interesting 🙂 I'll write more on the results soon... You scored as Emergent/Postmodern, You are...
read moreLectio Divina: An Introduction
Lectio Divina literally means "sacred reading." It is a spiritual practice in which the listener comes to the words of God with no agenda or presuppositions. He approaches a reading of Scripture not as a teacher or theologian or even student. Rather, she comes to the...
read morePostmodernity and Christian Spirituality 2: Lyotard, Metanarratives, and the Christian Story
The Series 1: Derrida and Textual Interpretation 2: Lyotard, Metanarratives, and The Christian Story 3: Foucault, Power and Knowledge, "The Golden Compass," and Church Inc. "I define postmodern as incredulity toward metanarratives." -Jean-Francois Lyotard This is the...
read moreMusings of a Seminarian 2: Postmodernism, the Emerging Church, Truth and Knowing
Today's podcast is a reflection on a discussion in my Systematic Theology 1 class we had over the book by James A. K. Smith called, "Who's Afraid of Postmodernism?" and the notion of knowing, perceiving and understanding truth. Musings of a Seminarian 1: Introduction...
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